A chiropractor is stripped of his licence for five years because he treated a woman who was also his common-law partner. A doctor receives similar punishment after a patient became his live-in girlfriend. No one questioned that either relationship was consensual, yet both men were found guilty of sexually abusing their patient-spouses.
Now, amid growing discontent over Ontario’s “unique,” zero-tolerance ban on any sex between health professionals and patients, a government advisory panel has urged giving spouses an exemption from the professional regulation, first adopted two decades ago.
